Operation Gadget
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Tour de France Hiatus
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor the first time since I started Operation Gadget, I put this site on hiatus during the The Tour de France. I had promised myself that I would focus only on technology used at the Tour this year, and not talk about race results, strategy, or other news. After the announcement…
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Older or Heavier Athletes Make Better Cyclists Than Runners
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy father-in-law George Kuykendall pointed out an interesting article in The New York Times called The Bicycling Paradox: Fit Doesn’t Have to Mean Thin. It talks about the types of cyclists that go on European cycling trips that follow the route of The Tour de France and how older and/or heavier…
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TdFwiki.com Centralizes a Lot of Information for Tour de France Fans
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne of Frank Steele’s projects for this year’s Tour de France is TdFwiki.com, a wiki specifically about the Tour. A lot of the information that’s been published so far is helpful to Tour fans who are following the race on TV or the Internet. The information that’s been published so far…
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Using Twitter to Follow the Tour de France
Reading Time: 3 minutesNote: This article was published in 2007. For the latest about how to use Twitter to follow the Tour de France, read TDFblog Publishes Comprehensive List of Pro Cyclists Who Use Twitter on this website. This past week I started using Twitter to follow the live action during stages of The Tour…
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Podcasts That Can Help You Follow the Tour de France
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’m spending more time at work during the 2007 Tour de France than I am watching the coverage on Versus. For this reason, I have become a voracious consumer of non-TV information about the Tour. One of the things I’ve been doing is grabbing Tour de France-specific podcasts from iTunes and listening…
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Safari on iPhone Really Intercepts Calls to Google Maps
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhile I was reading O’Reilly Radar, I noticed the article by Artur Bergman that discusses some of the developments at the iPhoneDevCamp over last weekend. The most interesting part of that article for me was the discussion of Safari’s handling of calls to Google Maps: Most offensive is, however, Apple’s claim to…
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The iPhone Does Multitasking
Reading Time: 2 minutesBack on January 10, I asked Is OS X the Key Component of the Apple iPhone? The first point I made in that article was about multitasking: Elegantly-implemented multitasking on a handheld device: Windows Mobile handhelds have this capability already, but none devices I’ve seen have a UI that comes close to…
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Congratulations Andy and Helene
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJim Courtney over on Skype Journal reports that Andy Abramson and Dr. Helene Malabed got married today in France. Andy and I have only met virtually but we’ve both worked as administrators of the Atlantic District of USA Hockey. We have had a lot of experiences in common, including the good…
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First Photos with My iPhone
Reading Time: 2 minutesFirst Photos with My iPhone: I picked the best 18 photos out of the first 100 that I took on my iPhone. See more iPhone-related photos in my Flickr photostream. I finally took the time to go through the first photos that I took with my iPhone and to post them via…